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...Freshman year, I found it really difficult to find people to work with,” Yang said, adding that she believed many males “wound up [living] with other guys who did math or physics or CS, and they all worked together,” but she lacked this option because her roommates were all studying humanities...
...doing," she says. So she went to the Washington city council to ask for more money to keep paying kids - and to keep studying what happens. "If next year's data show something different, so be it," Rhee says. "We'll take it year by year." The program has wound down in Chicago, Dallas and New York City, although schools in all three places continue to experiment with incentives...
...wreak. City governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra advised residents to "please stay home," lest the demos degenerate into rioting as did a red protest last year. The overall mood was one of fortress Bangkok being surrounded by alien beings. Then the unexpected happened. As tens of thousands of red-shirt vehicles wound through Bangkok streets on March 20 in a miles-long caravan, members of the city's lower and middle classes emerged to cheer on the crimson convoy. Short-order cooks waved their toques, teeth-whitening technicians handed out spears of green mango and Starbucks baristas clapped in unison. A gaggle...
Awww, did we have to go and say Pixar? The very word stings the DreamWorks ego like a lighted cigar tip on a fresh wound. Jeffrey Katzenberg, DreamWorks' elfin pooh-bah, had run Disney's animation unit during its renaissance years - The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King - before leaving in 1994 as John Lasseter's fledgling Pixar outfit came into the Disney fold. Katzenberg's new animation unit soon out-Disneyed Disney, whose 2-D features have waned in appeal. But he hasn't been able to out-Pixar Pixar. (See the top 10 Pixar voices...
These kinds of experiments are designed to be a shock to the system, but do they have any lasting effect? Greenslate and Leonard decided from the get-go that they would do their dollar-a-day diet for just a month, and even that limited period wound up being a major challenge both mentally and physically. They were so hungry, they experienced dizziness at work, crabbiness at home and extreme boredom of the tongue after too many bland meals of oatmeal or beans. A nightly dollop of peanut butter was the only indulgence that fit the budget. (See more ways...